SHOULD A WOMAN BE IN LEADERSHIP!!!!!

Genesis chapter 2







Today we are walking in: Should Women Be In Leadership







Today we look to the word-LEADER- H5057 nagiyd-- leader, ruler, captain, prince; excellent thing, (chief) governor, leader, noble, prince, (chief) ruler.





The Torah Testifies.............................

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The prophets proclaim...............





Isaiah 55:4 - Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader H5057 and commander to the people.










The writings bear witness.............





2Chronicles 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders H5057 and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword







I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

~Harriet Tubman




What we have discussed so far about Yah’s purpose and design for females prepares us to ask one of today’s most controversial questions: should women be in leadership? For those of faith, this question usually has a specific focus: should a woman be in a position of leadership in the community? The word of Yah Gives us the answers to both of these questions.




Before coming to conclusions about any issue, it is important to consider what the word of Yah as a whole has to say about it. It is too easy to take one verse and build an entire doctrine upon it. This often has been the case historically as the community has looked at the question of women and leadership.




Consequently, we will explore this topic using the approach we have used throughout the series. We will look at Yah‘s purpose for the female and how it relates to leadership. To do this, we will look at examples from both the old and New Testament that shed light on this very important issue, so that we may have a clear understanding of Yah‘s intent for us. At the same time, the subject of women and leadership is a very broad one and could be the theme of the entire series. Therefore we will look at the primary principles of women in leadership based on Yah‘s word.




“I Sent You Three Leaders”




In the book of Micah, Yah made a remarkable statement that many people overlook and most men do not want to read.




Yah sent a woman to lead.




If most males were asked, “Was Moses a great leader?” their answer would be, emphatically yes. I believe that Moses is probably the greatest leader in the Old Testament record, the man Yah chose to bring his people out of slavery in Egypt. Moses was obviously a great minister of administration. He learned much of this from his father-in-law, Jethro, Who taught him to delegate rather than to take too great a load of responsibility on himself. Moses was a man of tremendous strength and character, although he was also a man of weakness. Yet Yah balances weaknesses with the power of His anointing. During the time of the exodus and for 40 years in the desert, Moses was an extraordinarily effective and inspiring leader.




However, I want you to read a statement Yah made in Micah 6:4. Women should take this verse to heart and remember it for the rest of their lives. Yah said “I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam” (NKJV).




Yah was saying, “I sent you three leaders.”




We always talk about Moses, the representative and administrative leader. We also talk about Aaron, the high priest and spiritual leader. But Yah mentioned another leader that many men are uncomfortable reading about. He said, “I also sent Miriam to lead you.”




Yah sent a woman to lead. This fact contradicts many of the attitudes that men have had for years about women in leadership. When Yah purposefully appointed Miriam to be a leader to his people, He endorsed the idea that it is valid for a woman to be in leadership. It is noteworthy that Yah did not send Miriam to lead because no men were available at the time. He sent her to lead alongside the man. He put her in a team of leaders. Since Yah acknowledged Miriam in the same list or category with Moses, we don’t have to question whether Yah intended women to be leaders. “I send before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.“




The Sinai leadership team included a director, a priest, and a woman. The director was Moses, the executive leader, and the priest was Aaron, the spiritual leader. Yet right in the middle of the executive leader and the spiritual leader, a woman was needed in order to bring balance to both of them. We will see the nature of her primary leadership role as we progress through this teaching.




Miriam‘s influential role as a leader over Israel looks back to Yah‘s purposes for the woman that He established when he created humanity, and a head to Hamachiach’s redemptive purposes for the woman in salvation. Yah intended women to be leaders from the creation of the world, and he confirmed his continued commitment to this intention through the ministry of His Son, Yahashua Hamachiach. This is the basis on which we will explore the woman’s role in leadership. Throughout this series we have seen the following:





Women and men (as man) are spiritually equal before Yah and equally as important to Him.


Women and men (as man) were given the dominion mandate.


Males and females (man’s “houses”) have distinct purposes and designs.


The complementary roles and abilities of males and females bring balance, strength, and help to each other as they fulfill Yah’s purposes.




In light of these principles, the question people have been asking, “should women be in leadership?“ becomes an entirely different question. Instead of asking if women should be in leadership, we should be asking how they are to exercise their leadership, given their purpose given their purpose and design. What does the woman’s purpose and design say about her leadership role?




Rediscovering the Leadership Purpose of Women




Anything Yah said about the male-female relationship after Genesis 2 is a repair program.




First, let us consider once again that the dominion mandate was given to man, not just to the male. Therefore, it is Yah‘s purpose that the woman, as well as the man, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish, subdue, and have dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:28). To have dominion means to govern, to rule, to subdue, to control, to manage, to lead, or to administrate. It is a powerful word. Both women and men were given the same assignment of dominion leadership. Yah loves leadership and had it in mind when he created the earth. This is why he wanted the world to be cultivated and not just to remain wilderness. He loves order. When Yah told man to have dominion, He was telling man who he is. Man (male and female) is a leader who is to cultivate the earth.




There is no incidence of subjection, submission, or oppression of women in the first and second chapters of Genesis. In Yah’s perfect will, there is no such arrangement. The woman and the man were both equal, blessed, subduing, ruling, and having dominion, and Yah said, “This is very good.” Any other arrangement than this was the result of the Fall. This means that anything that Yah said about the male-female relationship after Genesis 2 is a repair program.




Second, recall that the purpose of something determines its design, its nature, potential, and abilities. Therefore, since Yah‘s purpose for man was leadership, He designed the man and the woman with the built in potential and ability to be leaders.




Therefore, the leadership spirit is in every male and female. However, the way in which they execute dominion is different based on their distinct designs.




The Influence-Power of the Woman




Both the man and the woman were created to lead, but their leadership functions are determined by their specific dominion assignments. Yah designed the woman not only for a relationship with Himself, but also to help fulfill His purposes in his great plan for humanity. Therefore, women are designed by Yah to execute an assignment that can only be fulfilled by women.




Position-Power and Influence-Power




Yah designed the male to be a leader by position and the female to be a leader by influence. The man has position-power and the woman has influence-power. There is a difference between these two forms of leadership.




A man receives his leadership by his position, in that he was created first, and by his being the source of the woman, for whom he is responsible. His position has to do with his purpose in creation. The man became the head of his family by virtue of the fact that he was made first.




When Yah designed the female, He obviously had influence in mind. A woman is a receiver. Yah designed her to receive from the male and to incubate what she receives so that it can grow and develop. A woman is built to influence. Her wombs, whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual have a tremendous influence on what they receive by providing a nurturing and transforming environment. There is much truth in the saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.“




Position-power and influence-power are not mutually exclusive; they are meant to be exercised together in dominion. Let me give you an example of this.




We have seen that the male is the initiator of new human life. He carries the seed of life, the sperm. This is why the male carries, as it were, the seed of the nations. In the Bible, whenever Yah wanted to create a new nation, He called on a man to initiate it. Yet while the man is the father of the nations, he cannot create these nations without the participation of the woman. A sperm is no good to a man without a woman, just as a seed is no good without the soil.




Yah said to Abraham, “Your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you“ (Genesis 17:5-6). Yet no matter how much of an anointing Abraham had in order to become the “father of many nations,“ he still needed Sarah to help him fulfill his calling.




Power and influence are equal but different. A woman and a man are equal in leadership. The difference is in their leadership functions.




There are two important aspects of position power. First, position power generally comes with a title, such as king, governor, doctor, or pastor. Second, position power is usually executed through commands, whether verbal or written. It is the authority that goes with the position and underlies the commands; that is the nature of the man’s power.




Abraham needed Sarah to help him fulfill his calling.




Influence power manifests itself in a very different way. First, a woman may have a title, but she doesn’t need a title in order to lead. She leads by her influence. This is why women usually run the household. Men call themselves “the head of the house,“ but the woman runs the home. Second, a woman doesn’t need to talk in order to run things. She leads just by her influence. My father used to run our household with his mouth. He would say, “clean the kitchen”; “take the garbage out”; “Take your feet off that chair.“ However, my mother would just look at me, and my feet would be down off of that chair. The woman doesn’t need to say a word; she just looks, and people respond. This is a powerful influence. Some men assume that because many women are quiet or don’t bark out orders, they are weak. They do not understand influence power.




The Dangers Of Influence Power




Influence power may be more subtle and quiet than position power, but it has a potent effect. HaSatan understood this influence. The fall of man resulted from the serpents interference with influence leadership.





HaSatan went to influence power and used it to destroy the position power.




HaSatan is clever; when he wanted to destroy humanity, he went to the woman instead of the man. He was after the man, because the man is the foundation, but he couldn’t get to the man because position power can usually stand firm as long as its position is genuine. You can’t destroy position power directly; you have to destroy it through influence. Therefore, HaSatan went to the influence power to get at the position of power. He hasn’t changed his tactics since, because it worked so well.




HaSatan went to Eve and basically said, “I have a proposition for you. If you really want to be like Yah, pick the fruit and eat it.“ The Bible says that Eve looked at the fruit and saw that it was good for food and that it was beautiful. She picked it and ate it. Nothing bad appeared to happen to her, so she took it to her husband and influenced him to eat it. HaSatan went to the influence power and used it to destroy the position power.




Yet Yah is all powerful, and he was not defeated by HaSatan’s success. He immediately put a plan in motion that not only would restore humanity but also would defeat HaSatan. However, his plan meant that a new arrangement would need to be made in the relationship between females and males until his redemptive purposes could be fulfilled.




The power of a woman’s influence may be seen in Yah‘s original design for her and in His response to her after the fall of man:





In creation, Yah gave the woman the assignment of rulership. This shows the Honor He has for her.


Yah promised HaSatan that his destruction would come through the woman. He identified the woman as the instrument through which man would be redeemed.


The woman’s influence power, in its fallen state, is so potentially destructive that Yah felt He needed to put her under regulation for her own protection and the protection of others. Yah gave the male the assignment of regulating the influence power of the woman until the fullness of time when he would send His son, born of a woman, to complete the process of redeeming her place of partnership with the man.




A woman was not originally created by Yah to be regulated by a man. This is not Yah‘s plan for the woman. Humanity’s disobedience to Yah is what altered her situation but this alteration was only temporary. Because Yah knew the influence potential with which He had created the woman, He considered her to be more dangerous than the man in her fallen state. This is why Yah put her under regulation.




When Yah told the woman of this regulation, he was saying, in effect, “you are so powerful that I can’t trust you by yourself any longer.“ His action with the woman is parallel to his action of banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of life and thereby being doomed to live forever in their corrupt state without any opportunity for redemption. He did it for her protection.




Yah said to the woman in Genesis 3:16, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.“ The word “rule“ means to “regulate“ rather than to “boss.“ Now, when it came to the man, Yah seemed to be saying, “as for you, Adam, your position power is not as dangerous as the woman’s influence powers, so you won’t need much regulation. I’m going to let thorns and thistles rule you. I am going to let the snags and difficulties of life that you would encounter rule over you. However, the woman will need plenty of leadership.“




This is why, when you meet a woman who does not have the Ruach Hackodesh in dwelling in her, you are encountering a dangerous package of influence that has the potential to bring destruction without inhibition. The woman doesn’t need regulation because she is the weaker vessel but because she is potentially the more dangerous one.




The woman needs regulation because she is potentially more dangerous.




What do I mean by dangerous? When a man is in charge, everybody knows it, because he announces it. “I’m here. I am the boss.“ Position power announces itself. Influence power just comes in and controls things. By the time you realize it’s presence, it has already taken over. Some of you who have been divorced know what I am talking about. An outside manipulative woman has come into your life and ruins your marriage. When a wife says to her husband who has been unfaithful, “how could you have done that!“ He often says, “I don’t know.“ He was waylaid by the power of influence.




A woman is more dangerous because hers is a silent power. You don’t even see when she is working. It is not necessarily presidents and Prime Minister‘s who are truly running our countries. Power is not only in the state house and the White House. It is in the bedroom. A woman doesn’t have to make a public policy speech. All she has to say is, “I don’t think you should do that, honey,“ and it becomes policy. Hers is a powerful influence.




Influence power is a tremendous gift from Yah that was intended to be used by women for good for the good of themselves, their families, their communities, their nations, the world, and the Kingdom of Yah. Yet women have to realize its potential for evil as well as for good. Even redeemed women have to be careful to discipline their influence power. Consider these examples of corrupted influence:





Adam sacrificed his relationship with Yah when he chose Eve’s influence over what Yah had told him. Although he was fully responsible for his action, this influence contributed to his temptation to rebel against Yah, which affected the future of humanity.


Abraham, who was called Yah‘s friend and was given the promise of a blessed son and heir by Yah, was influenced by his wife, Sarah, to take matters into his own hands and try to force the fulfillment of the promise through human means. When Sarah spoke, her voice became more influential to Abraham than Yah’s, even though he had had a personal visitation from The Most High. Today, we are still seeing the consequences of this influence and the never ending conflicts between the Arabs and the Jews.


Samson, whose unusual anointing enabled him to kill 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey and do other feats of strength, was influenced by Delilah to reveal the source of his strength. Then he was betrayed by her, resulting in his capture and eventual death.




The leadership of a woman is so powerful that Yah says it needs regulation if it isn’t under the control of the Ruach Hackodesh.